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Explore the evidence, mystery photos, OLogist interviews, and more. Read all about it!

Travel around the world with museum scientists: from Madagascar to Indonesia.
Character illustration of planet Mars, shivering in space.

Find out what we know about Mars in this online tour of Earth's closest neighbor.

Explore an amazing city carved into the sandstone cliffs.

Investigate the how and why of cloning. 

Paleontologist Mark Norell answers kids’ questions.

Museum scientists answer kids' questions!

Explore amazing facts about some of the 200 breeds of horses living today.

Explore how Eleanor is protecting the world's animals and plants.
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Find out how he became a geologist and what you can learn from studying rocks.

Find out where Rob has followed his born curiosity.

What is it like to hunt for dinosaur fossils? And what discoveries are made back in the lab?

Find out from a zooarchaeologist how humans have tamed and bred horses.

Meet a scientist who studies Korean culture.

Discover the intriguing facts and artifacts that Chuck has unearthed.

Discover where starry-eyed Neil has followed his curiosity.

What kind of person becomes an ichthyologist, a scientist who studies fish?

Meet some of the more unusual members of T. rex and Velociraptor's family tree.

Did you know that biodiversity provides us with things that we need?

Follow Carly's comic book adventures in Wasp Land.

Join scientist George Amato on his quest to stop criminals smuggling illegal goods.

Your address in space is a whole lot longer than your mailing address here on Earth.

Earthquakes are happening all the time. Find out what makes the earth shake.

Take a quick look at where Einstein's curiosity took him—and the world.

Join the inquisitive Deena Soris as she interviews the fossil of a Protoceratops. 

About 80 million years ago two dinosaurs were locked in deadly combat when they were suddenly buried alive. See one of the greatest fossil specimens ever found.

How far have your groceries traveled? Find out!

Take a peek inside two paleontologists' scrapbook.

Why are many animal and plant species dying out forever?

Find out how the Big Bang Theory came to be.
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How can the influenza virus travel around the world? Find out in this quizzy story!

How do simple storms turn into swirling hurricanes?

Meet six rocks that travelled to the Museum from places like Mexico, Scotland, and even outer space.

What faraway places might humans travel to someday, and how will we get there?
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Find out about Earth's climate, its consequences, and what we can do.

See how genetics is used to solve crimes!

Take a look at some unusual living and extinct mammals.

Check out these fascinating fish from Africa's lower Congo River.

Find out what's so fascinating about these beautiful, pink birds.

A paleontologist travels to Antarctica to collect fossil evidence.

In the Milky Way Galaxy alone, there are hundreds of billions of stars. But that hasn't always been the case...

The ocean's one diverse place. Take the surfboard challenge, and ride the waves of biodiversity!

Take a peek into a mineralogist's scrapbook to see why he thinks jade is so special.

Take a virtual stroll through a city park for a close-up look at some hidden inhabitants.

Where did Einstein get his great ideas? Find out with this virtual tour.

Visit a scientist's lab to see how he creates a magma chamber!

Do you dig the Earth? If so, you'll want to meet Ed.

Dive into the oceans with Melanie.

Find out why a ball thrown in the air will return to the ground. 

Explore how mammals run, fly, swim, walk, hop, and swing!

Einstein believed that messing up was a part of being successful-an idea that, itself, has proven relevance.

Find out what makes the Sun glow, and other amazing facts, in an up-close interview with the Sun.
Face-vase illusion.

What you see and what you think you see are different things. Find out what your brain doing behind-the-scenes!
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Dig your way through this list of ten titles.

Take a virtual tour of our solar system to explore its many mysteries.

Volcanoes, tsunamis, earthquakes... Examine how plate tectonics affect our world.

Watch two stories from ancient Greece that are animated as if they are vase paintings come to life.

Check out the scrapbook to learn about this amazing race!

Take a world-wide tour of biodiversity with three scientists.

What's the human genome project and what does it mean to you? 
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Do you know the difference between weather and climate?

Play music that you may have heard along the Silk Road.

How do you describe your place in the 4th dimension?

In this interview, meet the cast of a titanosaur, one of the largest dinosaurs ever found!

Have you ever wondered why and how fireflies flash?

Mundo Shamundo! Can you help Mandy study for her geology test?

Two thousand years ago, an ancient city called Petra thrived deep in the desert of Nabataean kingdom.

Find out about Taiwan's fascinating fluttering insects.

Almost all of the atoms in your body were once inside stars that exploded billions of years ago. Learn more mind-boggling facts.

Tour this spinning pinwheel in space that we call home.

Find out how scientists are using genetics to change the food you eat.

Discover how these deep sea creatures create their own light!

With its swirling column of wind, a tornado is one of nature’s most destructive storms.

Take your imagination on a wonderful, mind-bending trip with these "thought experiments"!

Explore this family tree of living things on Earth.

Try this trippy experiment to fool your brain!

It's not easy being an artifact! Find out why in this urn-est interview.

Find out what causes volcanoes to erupt and how scientists study them.
various sea creatures among coral.

How is the ocean like a layer cake? What creatures live there? And how important is the ocean? Take a dive and find out!

Take a closer look at how the atmosphere keeps our planet warm.

What does it mean to be human?

See how artifacts and ruins give us glimpses of what life was like long ago.

Astronomy is a BIG subject. We've brought learning about it down to size with these big ideas.
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It's the differences in this world that make all the difference!

Find out more about global warming. How, and why, we should slow it?

Take a peek at our planet's layers, learn what secrets rocks reveal, and gain a long view of history.

Take a look at the science of where it ALL begins.

Learn about fossils, extremely rare—and valuable—records of the past. 

Water is a precious resource, and all things need water to survive.

Is this animal a tadpole, frog, salamander, or lizard? Take a guess!

What animal bones did early humans used to build huts? Take a guess!

Explore some surprising ways that organisms get the food that they need.

What animal did scientists collect this tissue from? Take a guess!

What golden award is this? Take a guess!

Is this a leech's stomach, back sucker, jaws, or eyes? Take a guess!

Discover how species have evolved to survive in some of the most extreme environments on Earth.

What animal does this long, spiraled tooth belong to? Take a guess!

Explore some of the inventive ways that help living things reproduce and their offspring survive.

Take a look at some of the extraordinary ways that animals experience the world around them.

Discover some of the amazing ways that organisms have evolved to keep from being eaten.

Is this animal a rodent, a primate, or a raccoon's relative? Take a guess!

Wasps can live in hives of thousands, but did you know that most wasps are solitary? Get the facts. 

Grab the magical magnifying glass and take a close look at what's living in the mangroves.
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